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John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, has endorsed the theoryCatherine Mead for The Times

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But Dr Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, has not yet had time to look at itChris Harris for The Times

Jack Malvernat the Hay Festival

Last updated at 1:17PM, May 28 2011

A scientific study that suggests that the Last Supper took place on Wednesday,
April 1 AD 33 has been given an endorsement by the Church of England, it
emerged last night.

Professor Sir Colin Humphreys, a physics expert at Cambridge University who
dabbles with Biblical studies “on evenings and weekends”, told an audience
at the Hay Festival that the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, had read his
theory and wrote to him to give his approval.

The study contradicts a belief that has stood for centuries that Jesus Christ
gathered his apostles for the Last Supper on Thursday before he